What is the name of the person that pays the rent?

Question

The person one pays the rent to is called a Landlord, but is there a special name for the people that pay the rent, from the Landlord's perspective?

Answer 1

The tenant or lessee

Answer 2

tenant, boarder, dweller, holder, inhabit, inhabitant, leaser, lessee, leud, occupant, occupy, renter, sharecropper, vassal

Answer 3

Normally, it's "tenant"... if the written agreement is a lease, the term may be "leasor"...

Answer 4

The landlord is the person who RECEIVES the rental payment.  The person paying the rent is usually the tenant, but if someone other than the tenant is paying the rent, that person would be called the payor.

Answer 5

tenant, lessee

Answer 6

Tentant, leasee, boarder, lodger, renter, roomer, occupant, resident, resider..

take your pick..

Answer 7

Tenant

Answer 8

lessor - owner/landlord

lessee - person responsible for the rent